Turkey to lift state of emergency next week
Ankara, July 14 : Turkey's two-year-long state of emergency is expected to be lifted on July 18, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin has said.
"As for now, it is foreseen that emergency rule could be brought to an end on the 18," Xinhua news agency quoted the spokesman as saying here on Friday night after the first meeting of the new cabinet.
Turkey declared a state of emergency which has been extended seven times since July 2016 after an attempted coup by a faction of the military, which left around 250 people dead and more than 2,000 injured.
Kalin said that counter terrorism efforts will continue and if Turkey is faced with an extraordinary threat, a state of emergency could be declared once again.
On Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took oath to begin his second term.
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‘Sharbat Jihad’ controversy: Haven’t mentioned anyone’s name, justifies Baba Ramdev
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has defended his recent controversial ‘sharbat jihad’ comment, stating he did not name any specific brand or community in his statement.
Ramdev has been greatly criticized for saying earlier this week that a company selling sharbat was using the income to build mosques and madrasas. He had also called it ‘sharbat jihad’. Ramdev had made the comment even as he was marketing Patanjali Ayurved’s ‘Gulab Sharbat’.
Defending his statement, the yoga guru said on Friday that the Hamdard company people, who produce ‘Rooh Afza’, had assumed that the phrase ‘sharbat jihad’ was about them. “This proves they are indulging in jihad,” Ramdev has said, according to a report by the Times of India.
He said that, if the employees of the company were dedicated to Islam and were building mosques and madrasas, they should be happy. He also asked the ‘Sanatanis’ to understand the situation.
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh had filed a complaint against Ramdev, accusing the yoga guru of making the ‘sharbat jihad’ statement and attempting to incite communal disharmony in order to boost the sales of Patanjali Ayurved’s products. The MP had called the statement ‘not just defamatory but also unconstitutional’.
Ramdev was also criticized by several social media users, who opined the statement to be communal.
